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Jane-Finch graduates have diverse backgrounds

Re: For Black community, hope, pride and the power of the possible, June 10

For Black community, hope, pride and the power of the possible, June 10

As a lifelong reader of the Toronto Star, I am disappointed at an article written by Royson James.

In his article, James describes graduates walking through their graduation ceremony at York University from Westview and C.W. Jefferys as an “annual statement that education is the path out of the social housing traps.” As a teacher in the Jane and Finch community, I am familiar with the students in those schools’ communities and it is irresponsible to generalize all of them as coming from “social housing traps.” The students from Jane and Finch come from a mix of different backgrounds and live in a variety of dwellings. It is unfortunate that James chose to perpetuate false stereotypes of the Jane and Finch community to the Star readership.

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